Finding Your Roots

Finding Your Roots (2012)


  • Genre: Documentary
  • First Air Date: 2012-03-24
  • Last Air Date: 2024-04-09
  • Total Seasons: 11
  • Total Episodes: 107
  • Status: Returning Series
  • Episode Runtime: 60 min.
  • Production Company: Kunhardt McGee Productions
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Network: PBS
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Summary

Noted Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has been helping people discover long-lost relatives hidden for generations within the branches of their family trees. Professor Gates utilizes a team of genealogists to reconstruct the paper trail left behind by our ancestors and the world’s leading geneticists to decode our DNA and help us travel thousands of years into the past to discover the origins of our earliest forebears.

  • Keywords: dna, celebrity, ancestry, genealogy
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    Finding Your Roots Seasons

    Season 1

    First Air Date: 2012-03-24
    10 Episodes

    Season 2

    First Air Date: 2014-09-23
    10 Episodes

    Season 3

    First Air Date: 2016-01-05
    10 Episodes

    Season 4

    First Air Date: 2017-10-02
    10 Episodes

    Season 5

    First Air Date: 2019-01-08
    10 Episodes

    Season 6

    First Air Date: 2019-10-08
    16 Episodes

    Season 7

    First Air Date: 2021-01-19
    10 Episodes

    Season 8

    First Air Date: 2022-01-04
    10 Episodes

    Season 9

    First Air Date: 2023-01-03
    10 Episodes

    Season 10

    First Air Date: 2024-01-02
    10 Episodes

    Season 11

    First Air Date:
    1 Episodes

    Finding Your Roots Episodes

    Title Air Date Duration
    Season 1Episode 1Harry Connick Jr. - Branford Marsalis60 min
    Season 1Episode 2Cory Booker and John Lewis60 min
    Season 1Episode 3Barbara Walters - Geoffrey Canada60 min
    Season 1Episode 4Kevin Bacon - Kyra Sedgwick60 min
    Season 1Episode 5Angela Buchdahl - Rick Warren - Yasir Qadhi60 min
    Season 1Episode 6Robert Downey, Jr. and Maggie Gyllenhaal60 min
    Season 1Episode 7Samuel L. Jackson - Condoleezza Rice - Ruth Simmons60 min
    Season 1Episode 8Sanjay Gupta - Margaret Cho - Martha Stewart60 min
    Season 1Episode 9John Legend - Wanda Sykes - Margarett Cooper60 min
    Season 1Episode 10Michelle Rodriguez - Adrian Grenier - Linda Chavez60 min
    Season 2Episode 1In Search of Our Fathers60 min
    Season 2Episode 2Born Champions60 min
    Season 2Episode 3Our American Storytellers60 min
    Season 2Episode 4Roots of Freedom60 min
    Season 2Episode 5The Melting Pot60 min
    Season 2Episode 6We Come From People60 min
    Season 2Episode 7Our People, Our Traditions60 min
    Season 2Episode 8The British Invasion60 min
    Season 2Episode 9Ancient Roots60 min
    Season 2Episode 10Decoding Our Past60 min
    Season 3Episode 1The Stories We Tell60 min
    Season 3Episode 2The Irish Factor60 min
    Season 3Episode 3In Search of Freedom60 min
    Season 3Episode 4Tragedy + Time = Comedy60 min
    Season 3Episode 5Visionaries60 min
    Season 3Episode 6War Stories60 min
    Season 3Episode 7Family Reunions60 min
    Season 3Episode 8The Pioneers60 min
    Season 3Episode 9The Long Way Home60 min
    Season 3Episode 10Maps of Stars60 min
    Season 4Episode 1The Impression60 min
    Season 4Episode 2Unfamiliar Kin60 min
    Season 4Episode 3Puritans and Pioneers60 min
    Season 4Episode 4The Vanguard60 min
    Season 4Episode 5Immigrant Nation60 min
    Season 4Episode 6Black Like Me60 min
    Season 4Episode 7Children of the Revolution60 min
    Season 4Episode 8Relatives We Never Knew We Had60 min
    Season 4Episode 9Southern Roots60 min
    Season 4Episode 10Funny Business60 min
    Season 5Episode 1Grandparents and Other Strangers60 min
    Season 5Episode 2Mystery Men60 min
    Season 5Episode 3Reporting on the Reporters60 min
    Season 5Episode 4Dreaming of a New Land60 min
    Season 5Episode 5Freedom Tales60 min
    Season 5Episode 6Roots in Politics60 min
    Season 5Episode 7No Laughing Matter60 min
    Season 5Episode 8Hard Times60 min
    Season 5Episode 9The Eye of the Beholder60 min
    Season 5Episode 10All in the Family60 min
    Season 6Episode 1Hollywood Royalty60 min
    Season 6Episode 2Off the Farm60 min
    Season 6Episode 3Homecomings60 min
    Season 6Episode 4This Land Is My Land60 min
    Season 6Episode 5Beyond the Pale60 min
    Season 6Episode 6Secrets and Lies60 min
    Season 6Episode 7Science Pioneers60 min
    Season 6Episode 8Slave Trade60 min
    Season 6Episode 9Italian Roots60 min
    Season 6Episode 10Criminal Kind60 min
    Season 6Episode 11Fashion's Roots60 min
    Season 6Episode 12DNA Mysteries60 min
    Season 6Episode 13War Stories60 min
    Season 6Episode 14Flight60 min
    Season 6Episode 15Breaking Silences60 min
    Season 6Episode 16Coming to America60 min
    Season 7Episode 1To the Manor Born60 min
    Season 7Episode 2Against All Odds60 min
    Season 7Episode 3No Irish Need Apply60 min
    Season 7Episode 4The Shirts on Their Backs60 min
    Season 7Episode 5Write My Name in the Book of Life60 min
    Season 7Episode 6Country Roots60 min
    Season 7Episode 7The New World60 min
    Season 7Episode 8Anchored to the Past60 min
    Season 7Episode 9On Broadway60 min
    Season 7Episode 10Laughing on the Inside60 min
    Season 8Episode 1Hidden in the Genes60 min
    Season 8Episode 2Children of Exile60 min
    Season 8Episode 3Activist Roots60 min
    Season 8Episode 4Things We Don't Discuss60 min
    Season 8Episode 5Mexican Roots60 min
    Season 8Episode 6Fighters60 min
    Season 8Episode 7Forgotten Journeys60 min
    Season 8Episode 8Songs of the Past60 min
    Season 8Episode 9Watchmen60 min
    Season 8Episode 10Where Did We Come From?60 min
    Season 9Episode 1Hidden Kin60 min
    Season 9Episode 2Salem's Lot60 min
    Season 9Episode 3Secret Lives60 min
    Season 9Episode 4Far From Home60 min
    Season 9Episode 5Rising From the Ashes60 min
    Season 9Episode 6Family: Lost and Found60 min
    Season 9Episode 7Chosen60 min
    Season 9Episode 8And Still I Rise60 min
    Season 9Episode 9Anchormen60 min
    Season 9Episode 10Out of the Past60 min
    Season 10Episode 1Born To Sing60 min
    Season 10Episode 2Forever Young60 min
    Season 10Episode 3Fathers and Sons60 min
    Season 10Episode 4Buried Secrets60 min
    Season 10Episode 5Hold the Laughter60 min
    Season 10Episode 6Far and Away60 min
    Season 10Episode 7The Brick Wall Falls60 min
    Season 10Episode 8Mean Streets60 min
    Season 10Episode 9In the Blood60 min
    Season 10Episode 10Viewers Like You60 min
    Season 11Episode 1Larger Than Life60 min
    Season 11Episode 2La Famiglia60 min
    Season 11Episode 3Stranger Than Fiction60 min
    Season 11Episode 4Dreamers One and All60 min
    Season 11Episode 5Family Recipes60 min
    Season 11Episode 6Latin Roots60 min
    Season 11Episode 7The Ties That Bind60 min
    Season 11Episode 8The Butterfly Effect60 min
    Season 11Episode 9Moving on Up60 min
    Season 11Episode 10Finding My Roots60 min
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